Re: [RESEND PATCH v4] MAINTAINERS: add polarfire rng, pci and clock drivers

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Conor Dooley <Conor.Dooley@microchip.com>
Cc: "Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Cyril.Jean@microchip.com,
	"Daire McNamara" <Daire.McNamara@microchip.com>,
	"Lewis Hanly" <Lewis.Hanly@microchip.com>,
	"Albert Ou" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@linux.com>,
	linux-clk <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Lorenzo Pieralisi" <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	"Michael Turquette" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	"Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"Stephen Boyd" <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	"Wolfram Sang" <wsa@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v4] MAINTAINERS: add polarfire rng, pci and clock drivers
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 15:37:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a04WLx4Me_=hm9v+Kpq31i3ZCDfPiDhT64RyE_pZZPDVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a39bad24-d2bb-ef3e-d57a-2ac4fa1156ef@microchip.com>

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 3:30 PM <Conor.Dooley@microchip.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/06/2022 23:58, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> >
> > Hardware random, PCI and clock drivers for the PolarFire SoC have been
> > upstreamed but are not covered by the MAINTAINERS entry, so add them.
> > Daire is the author of the clock & PCI drivers, so add him as a
> > maintainer in place of Lewis.
> >
> > Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> > Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
>
> Arnd, Palmer:
> Does the SoC tree make more sense for this patch?
> I am missing an ack from Herbert (but I don't think that's blocking
> for a MAINTAINERS update to my own entry?).
>
> If SoC is the better option, should I resend this to soc@kernel.org?
> Unfortunately, since I originally sent this patch there have been
> other changes to this entry that will conflict in -next (all are
> additions so easily resolved...).
>
> I was hoping to get this patch applied to v5.19-rc(foo) since we
> never added maintainers entries for these drivers rather than wait
> for v5.20.
>
> If you (plural) would rather wait for v5.20, I can resubmit this patch
> after v5.20-mw1 with an additional i2c entry (if the driver is applied)
> that already has an ack from Wolfram.

I tend to take MAINTAINERS updates as bugfixes in the soc tre
(for 5.19), and I can pick it up if you send it to soc@kernel.org.

There should never be a need to wait for the merge window
with these updates, it's either a bugfix (for 5.19) or for the current
-next cycle (5.20).

       Arnd